Release annoncements in Discuss

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Nate [and all],

On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 18:45:10 -0600
Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:

> I think Promo people would probably tell us that the more widely our 
> announcements in general are spread the better. Not all eyeballs are 
> always looking at the same communications channels, especially for 
> mailing lists which are perceived as clunky and old-fashioned by the 
> younger generations who aren't as likely to be subscribed to them. Some 

that's a myth -
https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-all-cards-on-the-table-2013/indiv-nodes/generation_is_not_diminishing.xhtml

> people may only be looking at the forum, some people only the mailing 
> list, and we don't want to leave anyone out. So I think there's value in 
> being more liberal regarding where we announce releases, especially with 
> respect to our own infrastructure.
> 
> It would be ideal if we could figure out how to automatically cross-post 
> without requiring extra work from anyone though.
> 
> Nate
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/4/23 05:39, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > It's great to see KDE has moved to Discourse for a forum.
> > 
> > There's an announce category there.
> > 
> > https://discuss.kde.org/c/announcement/9 
> > <https://discuss.kde.org/c/announcement/9>
> > 
> > I wonder if there's thoughts on what releases it's useful to announce 
> > there.  Anything that goes to kde-announce? Only selected releases?
> > 
> > Jonathan
> >   



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